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Thomas warned me to have plenty of money in my account, since I'd probably be writing checks for about $300 to every person who came to my party. I was supposed to use the karat-testing machine, that day's price of gold, a chart in her book and a calculator to give people about 75% of the value of their gold, since 5% was going to the refinery and 10% to cover the cost of the party. I got to keep the rest. This seemed like the most difficult party in the world to run other than...
There is a certain kind of person who takes pleasure in announcing that he doesn't own a TV. By doing so he implies that his personal life is so rich--so much richer than yours--that he doesn't have to entertain himself into oblivion every night, secretly fantasizing that he is the only man who could bring stability to Liz Lemon's turbulent romantic life on 30 Rock. I am such a person...
...beer at the same time. Vincent J. Tuohey ’01, who is currently in his final year at Harvard Business School, said that he was excited to hear from both a brewer and head of marketing for Harpoon. “We got the perspective of the person making the product and the person selling it. I thought that was interesting, and something you usually don’t get at a beer tasting.” Christian M. Mahler, also a student at the Business School, agreed. “To actually have someone talking...
...imagination, “Blood Kin,” was a much different work, a dark modern-day fable about the people who become complicit in propping up a new corrupt regime in the aftermath of a political coup. Set in an unnamed country and told through alternating first-person narration, Dovey’s novel identifies its characters only by their relation to the deposed “President”—“His Barber,” “His Chef,” “His Portraitist?...
...Part of the trouble in terms of the book—it’s sort of a young person’s book. Some of the early stories, as I was finishing it, were pretty far away from me. When they are written by a significantly younger person, it becomes very difficult to work with that material. But at the same time, having said that, I think the last third of the book, I couldn’t have written it even a year before I wrote it. I needed to find out what happened to people...